[NYPOST] A 13-year-old boy has been charged for allegedly striking two other teens when he opened fire during a melee near a Queens high school, police said Thursday.
The teen — whose name was not released because he is a minor — was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment over the Wednesday shooting that maimed a 16-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy outside Campus Magnet High School in Cambria Heights .
The girl was struck in the ankle and the boy in the leg during the mayhem that ensued at a bus stop outside the school at around 4:50 p.m., cops said.
The victims, who are students at the school, were each taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
Sources said police saw the young shooter drop a gun as he tried to run away from the scene. The weapon was later recovered by cops.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/20/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Are a growing number of Teens just putting down their Xbox / PS# shoot'em up games to experience the real thing?
Knowing as a teen, they won't be given the death sentence and just be fed and cared for another 20+ years
[Variety] Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby, a founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock units, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), has died, his representative says. He was 81 years old. A cause of death has not been revealed.
At eighty-one, he might simply have run out of telomeres.
The death came as a surprise to those who followed his very active Twitter account, which he’d kept tweeting on as recently as Wednesday. One of Crosby’s final tweets the day before he died was to make a typically jocular comment about heaven: “I heard the place is overrated… cloudy.”
#1
CSN another piece of a pasted life that reminds me of my mortality.
Saw them in concert back in the very early 70s and loved many of their songs .... Marrakesh Express, Suite, and naturally the Southern Cross being the ones that come to mind quickly.
Yes, Heaven was damnably cloudy
And dowdy, yet loud, even rowdy.
That beetle-browed greeter
Was never St. Peter...
"Receipt, please... the Party says howdy."
Posted by: Oscar Throlump1766 ||
01/20/2023 8:46 Comments ||
Top||
#4
There is a difference between doing bad things to yourself all your life and advocating for bad things - communist totalitarianism - to be done to everyone else.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/20/2023 8:56 Comments ||
Top||
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Footage shows him bragging about being an 'evil salesman' who does not care what parents think because 'I still get paid'
Dr Quintin Bostic was busted bragging to a journalist about critical race theory
He said he had implemented the curriculum into two school districts in Georgia
He brazenly told how he passed it off as diversity, equity and inclusion lessons
Bostic said that he was touting prohibited books and theories that were illegal
CRT banned in Georgia in April for being 'divisive' academic concepts on racism
#1
Already happening in a school district near you.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
01/20/2023 14:27 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Take that to the bank.
Even out here we get our Thing of the Day salesmen and programs. Best was when the school laughed the Ukraine War is Awesome! lady off the court. I said, Eat Ze Bugz and eldest knew exactly what I was talking about, and that their Ag class laughed that salesman out the door.
It seemed to good to be true. It turned out it was.
[IsraelTimes] University says it was an ’error’ to rescind position from Kenneth Roth, allegedly over anti-Israel criticism, but denies claims donor influence and politics motivated move
Harvard University reinstated a fellowship offer to a prominent human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist muppet on Thursday in a reversal, after reports he was denied the position due to his harsh criticism of Israel touched off a major controversy.
Kenneth Roth, the former director of Human Rights Watch, was offered and accepted a one-year fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy last year.
Roth said the school’s dean, Douglas Elmendorf, vetoed the offer in July shortly after it was made. He added that he wasn’t informed of the reason the offer was rescinded, but said he thought it was due to his criticism of Israel and donor influence.
The Nation reported on the incident earlier this month, tying the retracted offer to Israel and setting off a firestorm of controversy over academic freedom and criticism of the Jewish state. It wasn’t clear why the claims were not raised when Roth was denied the fellowship last summer.
On Thursday, Elmendorf issued a statement saying he had "made an error" and the school would again offer Roth a fellowship.
Elmendorf flatly denied that his decision was influenced by donors or politics.
"Donors do not affect our consideration of academic matters," Elmendorf said. "My decision also was not made to limit debate at the Kennedy School about human rights in any country."
"My decision on Mr. Roth last summer was based on my evaluation of his potential contributions to the School," Elmendorf added.
Roth said he was "thrilled" that Elmendorf had again extended the fellowship offer, but said the dean was not being forthcoming about his motives and that the episode had chilled academic freedom.
"He still has not said anything about the people ’who matter to him’ whom he said were behind his original veto decision. Full transparency is key," Roth said.
"Second, I remain worried about academic freedom," Roth continued. "The problem of people penalized for criticizing Israel is not limited to me."
Roth, the son of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, ran HRW for three decades before retiring last year. He has since accepted a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.
He championed a range of human rights issues with the New York-based group, including a push to ban anti-personnel land mines, and the establishment of the International Criminal Court for prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Roth and HRW are widely praised among human rights activist muppets for their work, but their harsh criticism of Israel — including accusations of war crimes and apartheid — has angered Israeli authorities and pro-Israel groups.
In 2021, HRW issued a sweeping 213-page report accusing Israel of apartheid. Israel rejected the report, calling its "fictional claims... both preposterous and false," and accusing HRW of having "a long-standing anti-Israel agenda."
US Jewish groups also denounced the report, with the American Jewish Congress calling it a "hatchet job," and pro-Israel researchers saying it was riddled with inaccuracies.
Israel expelled HRW’s Israel director in 2019 due to his alleged support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
The founder of Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein, joined the group’s critics in 2009, saying it was biased against Israel and acting in bad faith.
"No we don't! That is an antisemitic conspiracy theory. And we're going to prove it by using our control of educational institutions to prohibit the criticism of Jews!"
Thank goodness someone found a spine to stand up to these globalist ADL bullies.
It’s one thing to be a fashionably hateful bigot behind closed doors, where everyone you know thinks the same.... except for those icky Jewish Zionists that we all hate, of course. It’s quite another thing when the folks back home are made aware of what you’ve been up to. Alinsky knew what he was on about, though he never imagined the other side would pick up his techniques.
[IsraelTimes] Provocative political outfit Accuracy in Media targets neighborhoods of Berkeley Law School organizers whose groups banned Zionist speakers, sparking uproar
A political activist muppet group last week dispatched mobile billboards to the homes of anti-Israel Berkeley Law School students, accusing them of antisemitism.
The provocative campaign was the latest sally in a high-profile dispute over anti-Zionism on the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, campus.
The group, Accuracy in Media, said a pair of truck-mounted billboards had "visited" two students at their neighborhoods in Texas while they were home during the university’s winter break.
The signs said "Berkeley Law’s antisemite class of 2023," with the students’ names and organizations.
The president of Accuracy in Media, Adam Guillette, said the student leaders had tried to keep their names out of the controversy. The group previously named individual students on billboards in Berkeley, then in internet ads, he said.
Sending the billboards to students’ homes in another state was the latest step in the campaign, Guillette added in a statement.
"When I visited Berkeley multiple students told me how scary it was to be a Jew on campus. I’ve experienced antisemitism and I can relate. But rather than keeping our heads down and trying to avoid notice from those who hate us, we must put these antisemites on the defensive," hesaid. "Accuracy in Media will continue this campaign on and off campus for as long as is necessary."
The two student groups were among nine at the law school that banned Zionist speakers last year.
The ban led by the campus’s chapter of Students for Justice in Paleostine applied to speakers who support "Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Paleostine." It included other anti-Israel measures including a commitment to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The decision set off an uproar after a prominent pro-Israel commentator published an op-ed saying the university had created "Jew-free zones."
A number of leading US Jewish groups condemned the school, although some Zionist students have downplayed the controversy, saying the issue was blown out of proportion.
Last month, the federal US Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights said it will investigate claims the law school hasn’t done enough to protect its Jewish students. The university said it will cooperate with the investigation and has strong anti-discrimination policies in place.
The investigation is the latest in a series by the federal office to probe anti-Jewish discrimination on college campuses under civil rights laws.
Accuracy in Media waded into the Berkeley controversy in October when it displayed an image of Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... giving a Nazi salute on a mobile billboard near the campus.
"All in favor of banning Jews, raise your right hand," the billboard said.
The sign was intended to oppose antisemitism, but alarmed students and drew criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, Berkeley Hillel and the local Jewish Community Relations Council.
The ADL said of the billboard, "The addition of more antisemitism, like using Hitler imagery to score cheap rhetoric points, only trivializes the memories of the six million."
Accuracy in Media, based in Washington, DC, says it is "on the front lines of the culture war." It describes its mission as using "citizen activism and investigative journalism to expose media bias, corruption, and public policy failings."
#1
The ADL said of the billboard, "The addition of more antisemitism, like using Hitler imagery to score cheap rhetoric points, only trivializes the memories of the six million."
Berkeley is a non-trivial problem. Having a prestigious public university discharge KKK level bigots into America’s already polluted supply of lawyers will plague American Juris Prudence for decades. There seems to be no Florida solution available as California politics has devolved into a Lebanon like scape where progress towards good seems impossible. The billboards in Berkeley seem like a waste of money to me as the city is a new Sodom. I can’t say that I am a fan of the mobile billboards, but I have no alternative proposal. Currently, I regard anything out of the ADL as left wing propaganda from an infiltrated institution. Let me know if I am wrong.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
01/20/2023 5:36 Comments ||
Top||
#2
The ADL has devolved to Southern Poverty Law-Lite
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/20/2023 6:02 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Another despicable move by the ADL. A powerful organization, funded by globalist billionaires, attacking the little guy. They're nothing but bullies.
When you don't have the facts, argue the law. Wjrn you don't have the law, argue the facts. When you have neither, persecute the prosecutor.
Note that, just like with Kanye, the globalists at the ADL aren't calling these kids liars.
#6
I loved Accuracy in Media's radio spots with Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/20/2023 8:04 Comments ||
Top||
#7
The billboards in Berkeley seem like a waste of money to me
Super Hose, the student activists came from Texas, so the billboards followed them home over the Christmas break. You’re right — there’d be no traction for pointing out that they adopted a fashionable idea in Berkeley.
a pair of truck-mounted billboards had "visited" two students at their neighborhoods in Texas while they were home during the university’s winter break.
I regard anything out of the ADL as left wing propaganda from an infiltrated institution.
I agree. I wish I didn’t have to, but they've gone over to the dark side.
Congratulations, Punky Elmigum9411 — you are a fashionable thinker.
Exclusive pictures of Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia - long known as 'ground zero' for the city's drug epidemic - reveal a shocking scene of drug devastation
Many addicts are injecting themselves in broad daylight and lying passed out in the streets, with gruesome sores on their arms and legs
More than 90 percent of the heroin now found in Philadelphia contains xylazine, or 'tranq', which was developed in 1962 as an anesthetic for veterinary procedures
its use on the streets has soared since the pandemic, and causes a blackout stupor along with deep festering wounds that frequently lead to amputations
Typical treatments for overdoses are not effective and the FDA issued an alert about the drug in November
[Breitbart] DuckDuckGo, the search engine that bills itself as a privacy-centered alternative to Google, but appears to censor conservative news to an even greater degree than its giant competitor, has been dinged by a privacy ratings service for lacking transparency.
Neutronian’s annual Data Privacy Scores have placed DuckDuckGo, which monetizes its services through Microsoft-owned Bing, in the bottom 10 percent of companies for data privacy, partly because of its weak transparency.
"DuckDuckGo, a search engine marketing its services based on privacy, but monetize services through Bing, got dinged for lack of disclosure and transparency," Timur Yarnall, CEO at Neutronian, told MediaPost.
DuckDuckGo has long presented itself as the plucky, values-driven alternative to Google. But the search engine appears to censor its results just as much, if not more, than its Big Tech rival.
Like Google, DuckDuckGo has a News Tab, where Breitbart News appears to be completely excluded. Searches for the exact string of a Breitbart News headline in DuckDuckGo’s news tab yield no results. The Daily Caller and Newsmax also appear to be completely banned from the News Tab.
Google censors conservative media too, as Breitbart News has extensively covered. But DuckDuckGo seems to be no better. The search engine’s CEO has publicly boasted about "down-ranking sites associated with disinformation."
#3
"DuckDuckGo has a News Tab"
You've just asked them to make a choice for you, and then complaining when they choose. (Frankly, I don't trust any of them. But Really.)
Posted by: ed in texas ||
01/20/2023 9:56 Comments ||
Top||
#4
All major American Search Engines that I know of, now run chromium under the Hood, including Brave, and even including MS's Bing.
Chromium - although open source - is an Alphabet / GOOGL product. Alphabet / Google deserves no trust.
#5
I switched to DDG a few years ago as the anti-Chrome and even anti-Firefox, but once I heard about their censorship program, I dumped them for Brave.
Whee! Betcha Mr. Musk is having fun pointing out all the things he’s going to get rid of. Will he be moving the headquarters to Texas, too, possibly down the street from his Tesla organization?
[Dawn] A Twitter bird statue fetched $100,000 on Wednesday as Elon Musk auctioned off furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment and more from the tech firm’s downtown the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... headquarters.
An online auction of "surplus corporate office assets of Twitter" that lasted slightly more than 24 hours also featured a 10-foot neon light in the shape of Twitter’s bird logo, which brought in a winning bid of $40,000, Heritage Global Partners auction service confirmed.
Among the 631 lots were espresso machines, ergonomically correct desks, televisions, bicycle-powered charging stations, pizza ovens and a decorative planter shaped like an "@" sign.
Musk in December said that severe cost cuts at Twitter had repaired the company’s dire finances as he set out to find a new CEO for his troubled social media platform.
The mercurial billionaire told a live chat forum at the time that without the changes, including firing over half of Twitter’s employees, the company would have bled $3 billion a year. Musk said he had been "cutting costs like crazy" at the platform he bought for $44 billion.
Just weeks into his ownership of Twitter, Musk fired about half of its 7,500-strong workforce, sparking concern that the company was insufficiently staffed to carry out content moderation and spooking governments and advertisers.
Musk said his strategy was to massively reduce costs while building up revenue, and that a new subscription service called Twitter Blue, which grants users a sought-after blue tick for a fee, would help reach that goal.
The move comes months after laying off thousands of employees at Twitter, and then downsizing its headquarters.
The social media platform, which Musk took over in October in a whopping $44 billion deal, has reduced its space by two-thirds at 1355 Market St.
The move comes as Musk, 51, has been making major cuts to staff — even eliminating free meal options.
In December, Musk revealed that Twitter was not secured financially. "We have an emergency fire drill on our hands."
"Twitter isn’t secure yet, just not in the fast lane to bankruptcy. Still much work to do," Musk later Tweeted.
After missing rent payments, Twitter has now gone from six floors to occupying only two.
Twitter laid off about half of its 7,500-employee global workforce in early November, as Musk enacted a drastic cost-cutting plan. This included 800 who were based in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... The company is also reportedly set to close its Seattle ...a formerly lovely city in Washington state, governed by communists, anarchists, dipshits, and other sorts of incompetents. Home to Starbuck's, Boeing (at least for now), and Amazon, Microsoft, and Costco, the city became rich beyond its wildest dreams. All that money attracted the usual sort of grifting politician, and it's well on its way to chewing off the hand that feeds it... and New York City offices in an effort to cut costs.
Ross Dove, chief executive of Heritage Global, the parent company of Heritage Global Partners, told the New York Times that more than 20,000 people had registered to bid online — the most of any of the firm's auctions over the last 90 years and a fact he attributes to the public's fascination with Twitter and Musk himself. He estimated that the auction would net Twitter some $1.5 million.
[NYPOST] A man from Dominica lost at sea for almost a month survived, in part, by eating ketchup, garlic powder and Maggi seasoning cubes, officials said.
Elvis Francois, who was rescued from his sailboat this week, also consumed rainwater that he scooped up with a cloth during his 24 days out in the Caribbean.
The 47-year-old got lost in December when currents pushed his sailboat out to sea as he was making repairs off the island of St. Martin in the Netherlands Antilles, which is where he calls home, he told Colombian officials.
"I called my friends, they tried to contact me, but I lost the signal. There was nothing else to do but sit and wait," Francois explained in a video released by the Colombian Navy.
He was eventually spotted by a passing plane as he used a mirror as a signal and wrote out the word "help" on the boat’s hull, according to officials.
The merchant ship CMA CGM Voltario joined in the rescue effort of sailor Elvis Francois in a photo released by the Colombian Navy, Jan. 18, 2023.
Colombian Navy
A passing container ship picked him up about 120 nautical miles northwest of the port city of Cartagena, navy officials said.
Before his miraculous survival, Francois said he had to consistently bail water out of the boat so it wouldn’t sink. He tried to set a fire as a distress signal, he said, but that failed.
"At some point I lost hope and thought about my family, but I thank the coasties. If it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be telling the story," Francois said.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/20/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"Man survives at sea for 24 days by eating ketchup and garlic powder" and will be in isolation for 48 days until his methane output reaches a safe level....
Butler Township police were seen in video punching a woman in the face as she was being detained on January 16
The officers were called to the scene after Latinka Hancock got into an argument with McDonald's employees over the lack of extra cheese on her Big Mac
The police department is now investigating the incident
They have put the sergeant on administrative leave
#11
I would expect no less in Biden's Banana Republic
Posted by: Regular joe ||
01/20/2023 16:08 Comments ||
Top||
#12
All critical systems should have a fail-over process that kicks in immediately during a final operating system release. But before the final release there should be an Alpha release (to only a few computers first), a Beta release (to a larger user base), then finnaly the complete Final release if all went well during Alpha/Beta. For a long time this was industry standard. Under know nothing Butt-Gigg, not so.
Around 18,000 Amazon workers were let go via email in a new round of cuts
They woke up Wednesday to a note telling them their 'role has been eliminated'
The employees were also cut off from access to their offices and computers
Layoffs come just after Microsoft announced 10,000 workers were losing jobs ...falling like dominoes after Elon Musk took over Twitter, oddly enough...
#1
...I still think that there's a serious bust coming in the tech/online industries - these outfits were seriously overmanned, overregarded and overfinanced.
#2
Reminds me, didn't the LSD MSM go ape $%^ about how EM doing the same thing, just a few months ago? Where is the same LSD MSM hate response coverage?
But with that LSD Media Dig out of the way made.
The economy is slowly returning to near normal.
The Pandemic scare is winding down, despite attempts to find something new to cause panic over.
More just want out of the house to roam and shop.
Many national chain stores are losing the ROI war and are cutting prices 40% to 75% to clear older inventory (eg. Bed Bath & Beyond).
Many see the cost of shipping and wait times for common items has become ridiculous, they see it costs less to drive and shop. Heck, even my neighbor stopped ordering delivered groceries.
Porch Privates are having to find a new criminal trade skill.
The downside of this.
Those of us that frequent BIN Stores are not seeing the $50+ items on $6 day like we were in 2020-2022. No more overlooked DDR4 3200 16gb Ram or Seagate 6TB drives packages for $1 on day days either.
#3
#2
Reminds me, didn't the LSD MSM go ape $%^ about how EM doing the same thing, just a few months ago? Where is the same LSD MSM hate response coverage?
Posted by: NN2N1 2023-01-20 06:21
NN,
I think the going ape was for public consumption. These people may be insane, but they're not crazy; they almost certainly wanted to cut the numbers but none of them had EM's personal wealth to protect them. I'd bet good money that behind the scenes they were toasting that magnificent bastard every chance they got.
#4
Funny how "evil" Elon Musk was for cutting 75% of the fat from Twitter, but hardly a peep about job cuts at Microsoft, Washington Post, Fartbook/Meta, and Amazon.
The consumer discretionary sector takes it on the chin in rough economic times. Also, the days of cheap money (credit) are over.
#7
All these "tech" giants overgrew their headcounts during the good times. In that respect, they are no different than Krispy Kreme or Bethlehem Steel.
The idea that they represent some "new model," be it of commerce, economics or whatever, is laughable to everyone except those who got suckered.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/20/2023 7:27 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Are you still an employee if the notification webmnt to your spam folder?
Posted by: Super Hose ||
01/20/2023 12:45 Comments ||
Top||
#11
/\ #9) Wonder how much is workforce and what is HR Blubber types.
Exactly. How many "friends and relatives" had jobs where they got paid for only showing up ...or DIE types that probably caused more harm than good by their actions.
[Garowe] Æthiopia has discovered new oil deposits which if explored would tremendously change the economy of the Horn of Africa nation which has lately been struggling with internal conflicts and civil war in the northern state of Tigray.
Tekele Uma Banti, the Minister of Mines and Petroleum, confirmed the news on Wednesday, noting that exploration will begin immediately to the benefit of the people of Æthiopia. Æthiopia is a landlocked nation that solely depends on oil imports from the Middle East and other parts of Africa.
A study conducted in Warra IIuu within Abay Basin, he said, shows that the country has more than 2 billion barrels of crude oil. This, he noted, would help the country reduce foreign imports besides increasing employment opportunities for thousands of struggling people in the country.
"Oil exploration is being conducted in 5 basins throughout Æthiopia. In an oil exploration study conducted in Warra Iluu, part of the Abay basin, the study showed that there are more than 2 billion barrels of crude oil," the minister said in a tweet after meeting several stakeholders.
"The government is working on utilizing the crude oil resources discovered, to ensure the prosperity of the nation," added the minister, who is a staunch supporter of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, an engineer who has struggled to contain growing rebellion in the country, that has left thousands of people dead.
Should the country kickstart exploration, it means Æthiopia will be one of the biggest oil-producing nations in East Africa and the entire Horn of Africa, which heavily relies on foreign imports which come mainly from the Middle East and northern part of Africa.
Æthiopia will join the league of South Sudan which has the rich potential of oil but has not been fully explored due to the civil war that has lasted for decades. It was anticipated that South Sudan would be able to serve the entire region, which has a significant shortage of petroleum products.
[Garowe] In a bid to expand energy access and strengthen international partnerships, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC) has awarded licenses for the exploration of three natural gas blocks in Lake Kivu to companies from the United States and Canada.
The country’s Hydrocarbons Ministry announced that US-based developer Symbion Power’s local subsidiary, RED, will be taking on the Makelele oil block, while the Idjwi block has been granted to another American company, Winds Exploration and Production LLC.
While the Canada-based Alfajiri Energy will be responsible for the Lwandjofu block. The awarding of these licenses is part of a larger licensing round that includes 27 onshore oil blocks, some of which are located in the Congo’s rainforest and peatlands, raising concerns about potential environmental impacts.
The development aligns with the DRC’s goal to grow its energy access from 10% of the population to 32% by 2030. The DRC hopes to tap into the vast amounts of methane underneath Lake Kivu to generate electricity, similar to its neighbor Rwanda.
The lake is estimated to hold enough methane to produce 700 Megawatts of electricity in the next 50 years, and it is projected that production could begin as early as 2024.
Production-sharing contracts are set to be signed within the next 15 days, marking a significant step forward in the DRC’s relationship with the United States and Canada in the energy sector.
[Breitbart] The United States will soon follow Europe in implementing laws against so-called hate speech, a top Eurocrat claimed at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos.
The vice president for Values and Transparency for the European Commission, Věra Jourová predicted on Tuesday that hate speech laws will be imposed upon the American public, despite longstanding case law at the Supreme Court protecting such speech under the First Amendment.
“Illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law,” Jourová said.
The Czech politician, who previously served as the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, made the comments during a WEF panel hosted by former CNN host Brian Stelter on “The Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation.” The choice of Stelter may perhaps be viewed by some as ironic given his own relationship with the truth.
The panel also featured New York Times chairman Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton, and Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault.
Representative Moulton seemingly agreed with the statement from the EU Commission VP, telling her: “I think in general the US has a lot to learn in terms of data regulation, internet regulation… You’re way ahead of us in that regard.”
However, the Democrat politician later clarified that he did not believe that American politicians were ready to forsake the fundamental aspects of freedom of speech.
And there it is.
The comments from Jourová come amid the backdrop of the ongoing dispute between the European Union and new Twitter boss Elon Musk over his publicly stated commitment to free speech, which has ruffled feathers in Brussels.
Indeed, Jourová herself commented on the matter to Euractiv on Tuesday, saying that the platform should partner with the EU on combatting hate speech and disinformation, saying: “We need the platforms to work with the language to identify such cases.”
She said that European Union laws surrounding online speech will be enforced, saying: “They apply to Twitter regardless of who owns it. Musk should not underestimate our efforts to make big platforms responsible.”
#1
Question:
Currently, it is the LSD Media that are the ones giving power to and promoting the agendas of Hate Speech groups with slanted coverage. Groups like the BLM, Defund the Police, Anti-FA, KKK, and etc. could not survive without their continued clickbait.
So should the LSD racist and hate speech promoting propaganda media arms be shutdown?
NO! Because there is a Check and Balance to their subversive agendas. It is called the Bill of Rights. But they can be sued in Civil Courts for slander or deliberate false reporting that cause serious personal damages and bodily arm. Just ask CNN, MSNBC and others who had their A$$es sued off in the last 3 years (for estimated $100+ Million. ).
#6
Since UK went that way, it's a good bet that this is headed our way. The Dems are in full court press mode, everything on the table, no enemies to the left.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
01/20/2023 11:31 Comments ||
Top||
#7
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/20/2023 11:33 Comments ||
Top||
#8
A national law would have to go through the house and be allowed on the floor. Maybe Mr Potato head lead that breakout session.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
01/20/2023 12:54 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Stelter would pass as The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, were he not so pasty.
#11
The Czech politician, who previously served as the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers, Gender Equality, Bingo Calling, Proper Eggplant Measuring, and Headlight Fluid.
[ZeroHedge] SHOT Show 2023 kicked off earlier this week. Recall that we combed through Venetian Expo and Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, revealing some of the most innovative products the defense industry has.
We came across AeroVironment's Kamikaze Switchblade drone (infamous since the Biden administration is sending thousands to Ukraine), grounded-based robots with mounted guns, UTVs for special operations forces, anti-drone guns, handheld thermite breaching tools, armored vehicles, high-tech weapons, and much more.
As the SHOT Show winds down, we found the last remaining exhibitors with high-tech guns, firearms accessories, vehicles, and/or gear -- many of these defense firms have extensive military contracts.
#1
...The EX is pretty damned impressive by any standard...but right now, the plans call for it to be only deployed here in the states with ANG and AF Reserve units.
We need a missile truck like this OVERSEAS, not held back here. New build F-16s would be perfectly good for CONUS air defense, and we could get more of them.
#2
A 'missile truck" does not need to be in the huge hurry the 15EX is capable of. And soon enough the job will be handled by UAVs anyway, which will have advantages due to not needing a cockpit nor meatware support systems.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/20/2023 7:43 Comments ||
Top||
#3
These the F-15s Joe keeps talking about?
Last time I checked they don't fly on alternate energy sources.
#4
When will the "soon enough" of UAVs arrive? Is it the "20 years from now" that Fusion Power has? Can a UAV be trusted to operate in a complex ECM/ECCM environment? I am an "autonomous vehicle fanboi" but am skeptical on how soon the AI can be trusted in complex environments.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a formerly lovely city in Washington state, governed by communists, anarchists, dipshits, and other sorts of incompetents. Home to Starbuck's, Boeing (at least for now), and Amazon, Microsoft, and Costco, the city became rich beyond its wildest dreams. All that money attracted the usual sort of grifting politician, and it's well on its way to chewing off the hand that feeds it...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
